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EPA confirmation delay raises questions about U.S. carbon rules
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency still in limbo, speculation is rising about the fate of a proposed emissions rule for new power plants that was scheduled to have...Tags: Gina McCarthy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Metal and Mineral, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC
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Newtown victim's sister turns gun control 'accidental activist'
ReutersBy Edith Honan June 14 (Reuters) - Jillian Soto was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a New England highway when she learned over Facebook that her older sister Vicky, a first-grade teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, had died in a shooting. In the...Tags: Interior Policy, Virginia Tech, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, U.S. Congress
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Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made the promise after...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Carl Levin, Bill Nelson, Al Franken, Jimmy Carter
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Lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a national debate on guns....Tags: Adam Lanza, Interior Policy, Eric Cantor, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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U.S. lawmakers renew push for gun control six months after Newtown
ReutersBy Paige Gance WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates renewed their push for stricter measures on Thursday, a day before the six-month anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which horrified the public and sparked a...Tags: Adam Lanza, Interior Policy, Eric Cantor, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Amendments to immigration overhaul bill stall in Senate
WASHINGTON — Enthusiasm in the Senate for the debate over immigration gave way to reality Wednesday as party leaders quarreled to a stalemate over how to consider dozens of proposed amendments. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's move to...Tags: Chuck Grassley, Republican Party, Patrick Leahy, Christianity, Career and Workplace
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Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...
Tags: Jeff Flake, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: Terrorism, Same-Sex Marriage, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Congress
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House members voice skepticism about surveillance programs after briefing
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Members of Congress on Tuesday expressed growing doubts about the way the country's top-secret surveillance programs are managed, even as the top legislators from each party voiced confidence in the programs and showed little interest in a...Tags: Jeff Merkley, Carl Levin, Al Franken, FBI, U.S. Congress
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Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights
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Boehner: Congress can do immigration this year
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate ready to cast the first floor votes on a landmark immigration bill, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he thinks there's a good chance the legislation can be signed into law "by the end of the year." Ahead of...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights
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National Journal on immigration: 'The Two Faces of Marco Rubio'
Takiing NamesLast week, I penned a piece that said Marco Rubio finally has a chance to prove his critics wrong and show that he's more than a lightweight when it comes to serious policy and meaningful legislation ("On immigration, Rubio has chance to prove his mettle"...Tags: Migration, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Politics, Immigration
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